75% of pro-choice voters need to know the truth: John McCain does not support a woman’s right to choose

April 2, 2008 · Filed Under Feminism, Internet Media, Politics · Comment 

Among McCain’s pro-choice women supporters, 50% don’t know his positions and an additional 25% assume his views are in line with their own!

Catherine Morgan asked: “Is John McCain a Pro-Choice Republican? Would you vote for him if he was? There seems to be a lot of confusion over whether or not John McCain is pro-choice or pro-life. Why is that”?

I agree, Catherine, but we need to work to end this confusion. McCain has stated (it’s on his website) he thinks Roe V Wade should be overturned. If you are pro-choice it is your job to tell the truth about John McCain! McCain owes much of his success among independents and moderates because of glowing press coverage about his bi-partisanship and McCain’s success at creating a false sense of his principles. But on choice, McCain’s record is really, really anti-choice. Not only anti-choice: anti sex ed, anti emergency contraception, anti women. Please click here to read the record and find a printable flyer to spread around.

A new poll from Planned Parenthood shows:

In fact, about half of these pro-choice McCain voters (50% in a match-up against Obama and 52%
in a match-up against Clinton) volunteer that they do not know enough to even
describe McCain’s position on abortion and roughly another one in four (23% in
either contest) mistakenly presume that he is in step with their own views.
Thank you, Catherine, for raising this issue and while I’m not a single issue voter by any means, choice is very important. We are dangerously close in the Supreme Court to a majority that would overturn Roe v Wade. The next president will have the power to make an appointment that would create an anti-choice Supreme Court. We can’t let that happen.

Please click here to read the record and find a printable flyer to spread around.

Cross posted from BlogHer.com

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Me and Nicco and Dave Winer talk change

March 2, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Media, Politics, Psychology · Comment 

Dave Winer is on to something, which he mentions in this podcast.

I first got the idea from my colleague Matt Wilson at the Kennedy School, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Obama’s real power to change this country doesn’t end on Election Day: it begins on Election Day. Citizenry is a job, a vocation. We’ve forgotten that.

Winer’s Sunday Gang with Nicco Mele and Morra Aarons

Scripting News here

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Women and Mitt Romney- Super Tuesday HQ

February 5, 2008 · Filed Under Feminism, Internet Media, Politics · 2 Comments 

I’m in Boston at the Romney Headquarters on Super Tuesday. I’ve been asking women in the crowd why they support Romney. Overwhelmingly: his values. I interviewed an older woman who said “Mitt is the only one she can trust- and his family sets an example. He is the only one” A young woman with a baby said she agrees with his values and his wonderful family.

To be a Romney supporter in Massachusetts, at this Super Tuesday event, I’d wager you’re not hurting financially. Odds are, you may have gone to Harvard Business School with Mitt, or worked with him at Bain. Yet when Mitt gave his speech, to a room full of blonde heads (he has many attractive staffers in Tory Burch and cute jeans: they don’t look like Republicans, at least the Republicans the media likes to show us. I call them “Mittlets.” They look blue state, not red) and expensive suits, the SINGLE BIGGEST APPLAUSE LINE WAS WHEN MITT CONDEMNED “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” and promised to end it. I ask you: what do these people have to worry about immigrants? Do they dislike brown people that much? Ann Romney echoed the call to end illegal immigration, more applause. I don’t get it. What are these people scared of?

I am very cynical about Romney, but I admit, it was nice to hear family values and commitment to family echoed. The cynic in me of course thought this was some kind of code word for “Mormon,” but perhaps not.(I did see a gaggle of young women staffers and approached them for a comment- I said, “I’m looking for young women who support Romney. They said, well most of the young women for Romney are staffers….” Indeed).Mary Katharine Ham gets it right here

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SheSource.org seminar on blogging in NYC

January 29, 2008 · Filed Under Feminism, Internet Media, Politics · Comment 

If you’d like to learn more about blogging and how it can help build your personal brand, please join me in New York City, February 4, with SheSource.org to talk about “Blogging: a Crash Course.”

It’s free, and it’s going to be a fantastic networking and learning event!

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Americans for a Bill-free Clinton Campaign

January 27, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Media, Politics · 3 Comments 

That would be my 527 if I had one. Bill Clinton is too old-school DNC. Not now.  No Billary in 2008, no.

CNN exit polls:
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Roughly 6 in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters said Bill Clinton’s campaigning was important in how they ultimately decided to vote, and of those voters, 48 percent went for Barack Obama while only 37 percent went for Hillary Clinton. Fourteen percent of those voters voted for John Edwards

Meanwhile, the exit polls also indicate Obama easily beat Clinton among those voters who decided in the last three days — when news reports heavily covered the former president’s heightened criticisms of Obama. Twenty percent of South Carolina Democrats made their decision in the last three days and 51 percent of them chose Obama, while only 21 percent picked Clinton.

Bill Clinton’s presence on the trail was “very important” to roughly a quarter of those surveyed. Among those voters, Hillary Clinton edged out Barack Obama, 46 to 42 percent.
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